AP Royal Oak Jumbo

Of course, if you want a delightful watch that will serve you both professionally and aesthetically, if you leave AP there are some considerably interesting choices. How about the boutique edition Lange 1815 chronograph with pulsometric scale? You couldn’t ask for a more beautiful wristwatch, though of course it’s a different proposition from the APs.

Omega Speedmaster Grey Side Of The Moon

I was mulling around my local mall last week and walked by the Omega Boutique window. I immediately noticed Omega’s Grey Side of the Moon. I thought the grey case and band looked very nice together. As I started to do a little research, I found out that Omega makes over 10 different types and styles of these Moonwatches. That caught me a little off guard and suddenly I was not as impressed with the piece. I wanted to get your feedback specifically on the Grey Side of the Moon as well as Omega’s direction with this series.

Omega, bless their acquisitive little hearts, continues to add to the already exhausting plethora of Speedmaster limited editions, boutique editions, special editions, limited production but not limited edition editions, and just about every possible edition you can think of, many you can’t, and many you wish you’d never heard of, of the Omega Speedmaster Professional. Couple that with the rather bewildering number of different versions of the actual, or basic, Speedmaster Professional, in both Moonwatch and pre-Moon variations, and you have a family of watches with more members and relations than a clan of Mormon rabbits.

It can be fun at first, but after a while you may come to find, as I have long since, that the whole thing seems unnecessary, redundant, and, ultimately, exhausting, The Speedmaster is one of those watches that should be represented by one, and only one, example in anyone’s lineup of watches, and that of course is the Moonwatch. Anything else, and it’s hard to avoid feeling like what you’re participating in is not the rich and authentic history of the Speedmaster, but the artificial and intellectually poverty-stricken world of the faux limited edition.

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